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- Title
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
- Abstract
The article presents information about constitutional law in the United States. The article refers to the Morse versus Brown case regarding the meaning of "reputed." Acts Conn. 1907, c. 122 provides for sentence by fine or imprisonment on any person who shall be convicted of keeping a house which is, or is reputed to be, a house of ill fame, or which is resorted to or is reputed to be resorted to, for purposes of prostitution and lewdness. It is held that since the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors prior to the adoption of such statutes had held that the word reputed as so used in other statutes, would be construed as limited to reputation founded on facts, and not on mere irresponsible rumor, the statute so construed, was not unconstitutional, as violating the federal constitution, as justifying a conviction of an offense on irresponsible rumor.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CONSTITUTIONAL law; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); IMPRISONMENT; CRIMINAL sentencing; PUBLIC law
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p740
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article